Category: Travel
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Dec 20, 2025 – Foods, Dishes of Southeastern Caribbean
The Caribbean is full of flavorful food and dishes. The seafood is fresh and tasty with some fishes available never seen in the US, like barracuda and kingfish. At least, I’ve never seen those in the US.
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Dec 16, 2025 – Roseau to Douglas-Charles Airport, Dominica
The taxi driver I’ve used in Roseau drove me to the Douglas-Charles Airport on the other side (eastern) of the island this morning. It’s about an hour and forty minutes on twisting mountain roads. Today I leave to return to Miami. On the way Rene, the driver, added comments about the areas we drove through.…
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Dec 15, 2025 – Roseau to Scotts Head, Dominica
Used the taxi driver I used yesterday to drive to Scotts Head at the southern end of Dominica. Scotts Head is a peninsula with a hill at the end. There was a British fort there at one time but today there’s one canon for show. I walked to the top of the hill. On one…
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Dec 14, 2025 – Roseau, Dominica
Went out whale and dolphin watching with a local tour boat company. Saw a lot of dolphins. The guide said there were about 200 in the pods. Saw two of the four species here, Fraser and Spotted dolphins. The two species were together hunting for small fishes, including flying fish, which were seen today. The…
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Dec 13, 2025 – Roseau, Dominica
Dominica is known as the Nature Island in the Caribbean. It’s has nine volcanoes, multiple hot springs and waterfalls and cloaked in dense forests. It’s so rugged the colonial powers, Britain and France couldn’t make it productive as far as growing any crop like sugar cane. But, that didn’t stop the two from fighting over…
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Dec 12, 2025 – Soufriere to Castries, St Lucia
Took a small, open boat along with a dozen other tourists from Soufriere to Castries to the north. Taking the boat was preferable to taking the bus (really just mini vans) or a taxi to Castries. The roads are narrow and very curvy so not fun to take. Tonight I catch a flight to the…
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Dec 11, 2025 – Soufriere, St Lucia
It rained off and on this morning, adding to the humidity and great for where I was going when it let up, the botanical garden with Diamond Waterfall. It’s an easy walk from my Airbnb, about a mile. Went mainly for the waterfall but the garden was very lush and had plants I hadn’t seen…
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Dec 10, 2025 – Soufriere, St Lucia
Found a local guide, named Marlon Brando, who took me by boat snorkeling near two beaches near Soufriere. Saw lots of different kinds of fishes and corals. Had two snorkeling sessions and both seemed too short even though they really weren’t. Spent about 45 minutes for each. There was just a lot to see. Great…
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Dec 9, 2025 – Soufriere, St Lucia
Today was a grind, a supposedly short trip from Kingstown, St Vincent to St Lucia. The two eastern Caribbean islands are less than 100 miles apart. My flight with InterCaribbean Airlines was supposed to take 45 minutes. That’s not what happened. So, at checkin I am given a boarding pass to Barbados and another from…
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Dec 8, 2025 – Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines
There’s a ferry system in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) running between islands. It’s a good way to way to get around and these islands are well worth a visit if you like the Caribbean with its beaches, laid back style, beautiful water, good food and people. Took a ferry nine miles south to…
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